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Chapter 8

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無限の列車
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ᴜɢᴇɴ ɴᴏ Rᴇssʜᴀ

Wake Up

"The attack of the demon who started it all."

<Rᴇɴɢᴏᴋᴜ Kʏᴏᴜᴊᴜʀᴏᴜ's ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ>

The girl with the twin-braids successfully appeared in the Flame Pillar's dream after falling asleep. "Woah! The 'real body' is here," she muttered to herself when she spotted Kyoujurou training his little brother.

She turned back to where the corner bent and rushed somewhere. 'I have to make sure he doesn't notice me,' she reminded herself. She continued to jog towards her destination. 'Quickly... to the 'edge of the dream'....' she raced down the trail, fastening her pace as she took a step.

The dream that Enmu showed doesn't stretches to infinity. The dreamer ends up in the center of a circle. There is an area of unconciousness outside the dream. The 'Spiritual Core' lies in the unconciousness area. If this is destroyed, its owner will become mentally crippled.

The young woman searched for the edge of the dream, until she felt something like a wall. 'There it is. It's the wall. The scenery keeps going, but it doesn't go any further than this,' she confirmed. She raised her fist, which she gripped on a gimlet. 'I'm just gonna quickly destroy the 'spiritual core,' so I can have a sweet dream as well,' she thought in determination and ripped through something like paper. As it was ripped off until it reached the floor, she entered.

The area was burning, the atmosphere was thin, and the floor was made out of crusted clay.

The young woman's temperature immediately raised and sweat built up at a fast rate. 'This is one weird 'unconciousness area'....... It's hot... I'm bruning up,' she commented in her head.

While in the train, Kyoujurou felt unconciously irritated all of a sudden.

The young woman in his unconsciousness area searched for his spiritual core, until she found a round floating object. 'Found it! The spiritual core!' She was satisfied by her own accomplishment and hurried towards it. 'It's the first time I saw a red one.... But his 'spiritual core' is brittle, so I can easily destroy it. Like it's made of glass.' She reassured herself, not midning the different appearance. The scarlet orb shined with bright colors, almost as if it was a ruby.

The young woman raised her hand and gripped the gimlet she possessed. But a sudden strain on her neck made her stop and gasp in shock and pain, not seeming to breathe for air.

At the train, her real body's neck was gripped by Kyoujurou's huge hands as he was giving it a tight clutch.

Y/n's eyes shot wide open as he stood up and checked the current situation the rest were in. "Keiteki-san... Kamado. Agatsuma. Hashibira-kun... what the hell's-" he cut himself off and his eyes immediately peered at the ropes attached on their wrists. "Blood Demon Technique. Since when..!" He was alarmed by what's happening, unable to move any longer, but doesn't know why.

Under normal circumstances, when humans fall under the techniques of a sleep demon, they cannot move their bodies. This is because their consciousness is completely cut off from their body. As a result, they're trapped in a dream. Enmu gave them a particular warning. Even though they've fallen under his technique, Demon Hunters are sensitive to a thirst for blood and there is a possibility that they can break through the technique.